Some cool endangered animal species images:
Orang Utang
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Longleat Safari Park
A few nice endangered animal species images I found:
Longleat Safari Park
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at Longleat Safari park.
Longleat Safari Park
Image by Cyberslayer
at Longleat Safari park.
Longleat Safari Park
Image by Cyberslayer
at Longleat Safari park.
Longleat Safari Park
Check out these endangered animal species images:
Longleat Safari Park
Image by Cyberslayer
at Longleat Safari park.
Longleat Safari Park
Image by Cyberslayer
at Longleat Safari park.
Longleat Safari Park
Image by Cyberslayer
at Longleat Safari park.
Cool Endangered Animal Species images
Some cool endangered animal species images:
Longleat Safari Park
Image by Cyberslayer
at Longleat Safari park.
Longleat Safari Park
Image by Cyberslayer
at Longleat Safari park.
Longleat Safari Park
Image by Cyberslayer
at Longleat Safari park.
Longleat Safari Park
Some cool endangered animal species images:
Longleat Safari Park
Image by Cyberslayer
at Longleat Safari park.
Longleat Safari Park
Image by Cyberslayer
at Longleat Safari park.
Longleat Safari Park
Image by Cyberslayer
at Longleat Safari park.
Nice Endangered Animal Species photos
A few nice endangered animal species images I found:
The flying trainer / La adiestradora voladora
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Zoo - Barcelona (Spain).
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The Bottlenose Dolphin is one of the most common and well-known dolphins. Recent molecular studies show it is in fact two species, the Common Bottlenose Dolphin (Tursiops truncatus) and the Indo-Pacific Bottlenose Dolphin (T. aduncus). It inhabits warm and temperate seas worldwide and may be found in all but the Arctic and the Antarctic Oceans.
Bottlenose Dolphins are still occasionally killed in dolphin drive hunts for their meat or because they compete for fish. Bottlenose Dolphins (and several other dolphin species) often travel together with tuna, and since the dolphins are much easier to spot than the tuna, fishermen commonly encircle dolphins to catch tuna, sometimes resulting in the death of dolphins. This has led to boycotts of tuna products and a "dolphin-safe" label for tuna caught with methods that do not endanger dolphins.
Bottlenose Dolphins (as well as other dolphins) are often trained to perform in dolphin shows. Some animal welfare activists claim that the dolphins there are not adequately challenged and that the pools are too small; others maintain that the dolphins are well cared for and enjoy living and working with humans.
Direct interaction with dolphins is used in the therapy of severely handicapped children and adults, and many report it as having a highly positive effect.
The military of the United States and Russia train Bottlenose Dolphins as military dolphins for wartime tasks such as locating sea mines or detecting and marking enemy divers. The USA's program is the U.S. Navy Marine Mammal Program, located in San Diego, California.
In the town of Laguna in south Brazil, a pod of Bottlenose Dolphins is known to drive fish towards fishermen who stand at the beach in shallow waters. One dolphin will then roll over, which the fishermen take as sign to throw out their nets. The dolphins feed on the escaping fish. The dolphins were not trained for this behaviour; the collaboration has been going on at least since 1847. Similar cooperative fisheries also exist in Africa, and have been reported through recorded history.
More info: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bottlenose_Dolphin
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CASTELLANO
De las más de 30 especies de delfines que existen, el delfín mular o delfín hocico de botella (Tursiops truncatus) es el más común y más conocido de la familia de los Delphinidae. Ello se debe a que con frecuencia se tiene en cautiverio, pues su naturaleza sociable y su inteligencia lo convierten en la estrella de muchos espectáculos.
En estado salvaje, estos delfines grises viven en grupos de hasta 10 ó 12 individuos. Como otros delfines, se sirven de un sistema de "eco" para localizar su alimento y, a menudo, cooperan entre ellos para acorralar a sus presas. Frecuentemente surcan la estela dejada por los barcos y, a veces, se acercan a los nadadores y los dejan jugar con ellos.
Habitan en los mares cálidos y templados de todo el mundo y pueden encontrarse en todos los océanos a excepción del Ártico y el Antártico.
La especie se conoce comúnmente por su carácter y curiosidad amistosos. Es frecuente que un zambullidor sea investigado por un grupo de ellos. De vez en cuando, los delfines han rescatado a zambullidores en peligro llevándolos a la superficie, un comportamiento que también demuestran hacia los miembros en peligro de sus propias especies. En noviembre de 2004, un informe más dramático de la intervención de un delfín vino de Nueva Zelanda: un gran tiburón blanco se acercó a tres salvavidas, nadando a 100 m de la costa cerca de Whangarei. Un grupo de delfines, detectando al parecer el peligro de los nadadores, se reunió y los rodeó firmemente por cuarenta minutos, previniendo un ataque del tiburón.
Las apariciones de los delfines en la mitología y las leyendas son numerosas, y atestiguan de la relación entre el hombre y los delfines desde la antigüedad. La mitología griega cuenta que estos mamíferos marinos antes que delfines fueron hombres, concretamente unos piratas que intentaron vender al dios Dionisio como esclavo, y este como castigo los convirtió en dichos cetáceos. En la mitología romana Neptuno, el dios romano del agua y el mar, siempre era representado con su característico tridente y rodeado de delfines. Se trasmite la leyenda que entre los antiguos cristianos los delfines es el simbolismo de la regeneración del individuo.
Desde la época de la Guerra Fría los delfines se usan por parte del la Marina estadounidense con fines bélicos debido a su gran inteligencia: ya sea como colocadores de minas, como espías (transportando equipos de detección ópticos o electrónicos) o directamente como soldados, atacando a buzos o embarcaciones. Estos delfines están bajo una Unidad que se conoce como "Unidad de Mamíferos Marinos". El Pentágono ha confirmado el uso de delfines en el Golfo Pérsico para el dragado de minas y la detección de buceadores.
Al igual que los perros antitanque, los delfines son entrenados y usados con fines bélicos, en este caso en el medio subacuático. Se los adiestra para que transporten, coloquen o remuevan minas explosivas magnéticas bajo el casco de embarcaciones militares metálicas. Cuando colocan minas, su labor no es suicida, ya que huyen tras la colocación de la bomba y pueden ser usados para una futura nueva misión.
Más info: es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delf%c3%adn_mular, es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cerebro_del_delf%c3%adn#Capacidades...
Pets Corner
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Pets Corner at Longleat Safari park.
Pets Corner
Image by Cyberslayer
Pets Corner at Longleat Safari park.
Cool Endangered Animal Species images
A few nice endangered animal species images I found:
Orang Utang
Image by Marcel_Ekkel
Orang Utang
Image by Marcel_Ekkel
Cool Endangered Animal Species images
Some cool endangered animal species images:
BLANDING BEARS 370
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Walt McCown, bear biologist, holds the two collared cubs before they're returned to the den and mom. March 24, 2012
Camp Blanding bear cubs examined by FWC biologists
Their official names are “160” and “161.” But the words used most frequently to describe them were “too cute.”
They are two 6-pound, male black bear cubs born about eight weeks ago. Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission (FWC) biologists examined the cubs Sunday at the Camp Blanding Joint Training Center in Clay County.
Biologists Walt McCown and Brian Scheick, along with FWC Chairman Kathy Barco, went to the den to retrieve the cubs. According to McCown, who has been studying bears for 15 years, the female will generally leave the cubs temporarily when humans approach.
“During the time the females are nursing their cubs, they are usually very lethargic and not aware of their surroundings,” McCown said. “However, each bear is an individual, and we have to be ready for anything once we get to the den.”
And being prepared this time was a good idea. This time, Mama Bear didn’t want to cooperate.
“We came up on the den, and she refused to leave,” Scheick said. “We made noise and got extremely close to her before she left her cubs.”
McCown and Barco carried the cubs out to where they could be examined and fitted with their own radio collars. The cubs were also measured, weighed and injected with a microchip.
“The collars are designed to ‘grow’ with the cubs and will eventually fall off in six to eight months,” McCown said. “During this timeframe, we will be able to gather quite a bit of information about their movements with their mother.”
McCown follows a very strict time schedule when dealing with bear cubs, and the animals were returned to their mother within 45 minutes.
“Mom was waiting. She went back to the cubs,” McCown said.
The cubs and their 180-pound mother, “154,” are part of a bear project on the Florida National Guard base, according to McCown. In January, No. 154 gave birth to the two males, the first documented bears born on the base.
The project is gathering data about the bears on Camp Blanding, the 72,000-acre training center between two large bear populations in the Ocala National Forest and the Osceola National Forest. Seven bears have been caught and fitted with radio collars since June 2011.
“We want to see how the bears are using Camp Blanding as a part of the corridor between the two national forests,” McCown said.
Cocodrilo del Nile
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Nile Crocodile @ Disney's Animal Kingdom -- Africa
The Nile crocodile (Crocodylus niloticus) is an African crocodile and the second largest extant reptile in the world, after the saltwater crocodile. The Nile crocodile is an opportunistic apex predator and a very aggressive species of crocodile that is capable of taking almost any animal within its range. They are generalists, taking a variety of prey. Their diet consists mostly of different species of fish, reptiles, birds and mammals. The Nile crocodile is one of the most dangerous species of crocodile and is responsible for the hundreds of deaths of humans every year. It is a rather common species of crocodile and is not endangered.
Longleat Safari Park
Check out these endangered animal species images:
Longleat Safari Park
Image by Cyberslayer
at Longleat Safari park.
Longleat Safari Park
Image by Cyberslayer
at Longleat Safari park.
Longleat Safari Park
Image by Cyberslayer
at Longleat Safari park.
Nice Endangered Animal Species photos
A few nice endangered animal species images I found:
Ambassador King Spreads Native Geneva Prairie Grass Seeds on the U.S. Mission Grounds
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US Mission Geneva “Goes Native” With Planting of Geneva Prairie Grasses
Joins Geneva biodiversity collaboration by planting grounds with special indigenous seed mix
On April 20, 2011, the United States Mission to the United Nations in Geneva celebrated its signature of Geneva’s Garden Charter (Charte des Jardins) with a seed sowing ceremony beginning the conversion of the lawns surrounding our building to meadows of flowering prairie grasses indigenous to the Geneva region.
The conversion from lawn to prairie meadow marks the first major step in implementation of an ambitious multi-year sustainable landscape project to transform the Mission’s grounds into a series of local ecosystems that will support local flora and fauna and connect us with the larger Geneva environment.
In signing the Garden Charter, a collaborative project among Swiss Cantons, the U.S. Mission assumes a commitment to organize our land in a way that enables the survival of wildlife. This includes not using biocides, planting grasses instead of lawns, and leaving havens for small animals such as heaps of stones, or piles of branches. The Garden Charter plaque with its symbolic hedgehog will stand at our main entrance next to the Certified Wildlife Habitat sign awarded in 2009 when the Mission became the first State Department facility certified by the U.S. National Wildlife Federation.
Based on the “Melange-Geneve” blend of Geneva wildflower and grass species developed by the Canton of Geneva’s Conservation office, the Mission’s new meadow will increase local biodiversity, while also curbing water use and carbon emissions and reducing maintenance costs.
“We expect that over time the expanse of prairie grasses will become home to a host of regional flora and fauna,” said Ambassador Betty E. King, U.S. Permanent Representative to the United Nations and Other International Organizations in Geneva. “By virtue of our close proximity to other green spaces, we will be able to contribute our meadow to a chain – including gardens at international organizations and other diplomatic Missions nearby –forming a green corridor of hospitable terrain for the likes of birds, hedgehogs, butterflies, and rodents. Being a good neighbor in Geneva also means being a good neighbor to the diverse species, large and small, in our shared environment.”
The Melange-Geneve features flowering wild grasses including Salvia pratensis (Meadow Sage) with its vertical stalks of purple and blue flowers, and the white flowered umbrels of the Caraway (Carum carvi) or Medidian Fennel. The meadow will expand the habitat for Geneva animal and insect species including butterflies such as the Old World Swallowtail (Papilio machaon), many species of birds, and of course the Garden Charter mascot, the hedgehogs, which feeds on the seeds of the plants.
“Choosing to plant prairie grasses rather than a cultivated lawn helps to rebuild biodiversity literally from the ground up,” said Bertrand von Arx, Nature Conservationist for the Canton of Geneva. “I’m pleased to see that Geneva’s biodiversity corridors are taking root in international Geneva as well. Projects like this one help to rebuild food chains. That in turn has an expanded impact beyond each individual garden’s walls. Adding native grasses to your garden favors the diversity of plants and animals and can even contribute to preserving our rarest and most endangered species.”
U.S. Mission Photo: Eric Bridiers
